About $44 per share, and 17.9 billion dollars in market capital. It’s just the natural course of things. Create a company that is based upon building up debt. Get the debt up to record levels! Just as it looks as though major defaults may be around the corner, spin the company off in an IPO! That way, when all the Visa credit card users are up to their hats in debt and start a massive round of defaults, have the investors of the shiny new Visa IPO pick up the tab. And did you read that the Investment houses like J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs made sure they had their best clients buy up the stock to thwart a rapid sell off ala Blackstone? It seems more like they were dumping it off to the ones more likely to be able to afford living with a dog with fleas. Who says they don’t have a heart?

And it was a big day on Wall Street. The Dow was up, the NASDAQ closed up over 4% It’s been a few years since they had that kind of gain, of course don’t forget that (more…)